[jaxie]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

I said 'if checks were made not 'were'.

However I am not arguing here, I am merely stating that in my view, and I say it again, as my point and a couple of other peoples too maybe.

In my opinion, someone going to a polling station can only get their vote done once, with no one else with them in the booth, or anyone interfering as to their voting as it is watched at the time by the electoral attendants on duty in the polling station.

In a postal vote,a postal vote granted on paper on signature only and not with photo id, that postal vote then done in the home, is not watched as it is in a polling station.

No official is there to observe the voter marking the ballot paper, signing the declaration and sealing the envelope.
Which in my view,'could' leave postal voting open to possible influence or interference from another or indeed others.
Something which could not happen inside an actual polling station.
No one voting in a polling station has their vote seen by anyone else.
A postal vote done in the home can be.

That has been my point all through and it is why I think, rightly or wrongly, postal votes and indeed any voting taken out of a polling station and private booth there with sealed boxes for the completed vote,needs greater scrutiny and security before being granted and issued.
With at least photo id in addition to signature for a postal vote.

I even would not object to having to show id at a polling station either to ensure I am who I am saying I was.

Now I know people watch you at the polling station because it's a fact from Joey, I'll never be able to go there again without hearing the pink panther theme tune in my head.

Also a bit worried about all these carers and where they may be stuffing disabled people's votes instead of posting them.

Seriously though people at polling stations don't know you from Adam, polling cards don't have a photo ID How can they verify its you and why would they 'watch' you? It's no safer than a postal vote in reality and postal voting would get more people to vote.